Roache wrote to girl after alleged assault

Coronation Street star William Roache was branded a “dirty old man” by one of his alleged victims, a court heard yesterday.

The woman, now a pensioner, said she was watching the ITV soap with her husband who remarked Roache, who plays Ken Barlow in the show, was “OK”.

“I said he wasn’t,” the witness said, “I said he’s a dirty old man, is what I said.”